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Web 2.0 –Blogs & WikisAn Introduction

Carol WalkereLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)

JISC Regional Support CentreScotland North & East

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www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk

Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East

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What’s it all about?

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1995

Way back when…

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Web 2.0 – The next phase

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A content publishing system where entries are made over time. The most recent entry is at the top of the page. Similar in style to a journal.

define:keyword e.g. define:blog

TIP

In Google

What is a blog?

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Anatomy of a Blog

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Blog Title

One entry – most recent at top

Date stampedEach entry has short, concise title

Can contain multimedia – images, video and audio

Content – can link to other resources with hyperlinksComments

from your blog readers

Readers can subscribe to your blog to get automatic updates

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What’s out there?

• Video Blog or Vlog• Photoblog• Podcast*• …

• Personal• Travel• Political• Education• …

By Media Type

By Genre

* Doesn’t necessarily have to be a blog though

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Why use a blog?

A reflective diaryA place to organise your thoughtsA collaborative spaceA mechanism for sharing experiencesA means of gaining feedbackYour space on the web…

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Communities

Computing Construction Fire and Rescue Service Media Studies Employability Access to Life and Leisure

Duncan Gillespie & Robert Brown(Dumfries & Galloway College)

“Supporting the development of e-Portfolios has moved on significantly since involvement in the ISLE project. By using Web 2.0 technologies in a structured and simple way, we have developed staff and student skills, which will equip them for the future and add real value to the educational experience.”

Template for ePortfolio

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Intute: health & life sciences blog

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/blog/

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Glasgow School of Art – Library Blog

http://gsaartdesign.blogspot.com/

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Is it Complicated?

No!All you do is fill in a form…

…no programming skills required

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Where do you find blogs?

Technoratihttp://www.technorati.com

Googlehttp://blogsearch.google.com

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Subscribing to a blog

RSS Readers – lots of options– Web-based – Bloglines, Google Reader

Analogy: subscribing to an rss feed can be likened to taking out a magazine subscription

Analogy: subscribing to an rss feed can be likened to taking out a magazine subscription

TIP

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FREQUENCY

Daily?

Weekly?

Monthly?

IDENTITY

Anonymous? First Name? Full Name? Alias?

VISIBILITY

Private?

Public?

Some Things to Consider…

1. What is the purpose of your blog?2. What about frequency, identitiy, visibility…

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Blogs – Hands on

Have a look at some of the examples

Search for some blogs on the topic of your choice using one of the blog search engines

Setting up a blog

Part 1

Part 2

http://tinyurl.com/cawablogshttp://tinyurl.com/cawablogs

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Setting up a blog

blogger.com wordpress.com

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Discussion - Uses

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JISC Legal Information Service

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk

JISC Legal is a free information service offering high quality legal information to further and higher education relating to the use of information and communications technologies. We run training events, provide publications, and offer an enquiry service.

Legal Implications – Help

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Legal Implications

“Basically for colleges and universities the data protection and other legal issues remain the same for an institution when using blogs, wiki's, podcasts etc as for other media.”

“It is up to universities and colleges to manage the risk as they have to do with other means of communication. Therefore for example Data Protection, AUPs, Copyright Policies, Staff contracts/policies/handbooks etc all have to be updated to ensure that it is understood that these 'new' media are included.”

Source: JISC Legal

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Source: JISC Legal

Legal guide from Stanford University at http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/podcasting.htm

Universities Legal Briefings athttp://www.pinsentmasons.com/media/484810274.htmThe relevant section is the Human Resources section - piece titled 'Blog off! - tackling the risks of blogging‘

For a look at what UK universities are doing see the followingguidelines for students at :

Warwick Universityhttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/elab/services/webtools/blogs/terms

University of Sunderland http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/myblogs/acceptable_use_of_blogs/

Legal Implications – Help

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http://www.web2rights.org.uk/

Web2Rights

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http://www.vp.is.ed.ac.uk/

Guidelines for using external services

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JISC infoNet – Social Software

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/social-software

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Educause - 7 things you should know about…

http://www.educause.edu/7495

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Intute – virtual training suite

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intute - vts: business studies (fe)

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Wiki is defined as: “A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified mark-up language.”

Wikis – An Overview

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Wiki examplesWikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org

Wiki selection toolhttp://www.wikimatrix.org

Set up a free wikiPB Wiki http://www.pbwiki.com

Example http://jiscrsc.pbwiki.com password: blogs3

Wet Paint http://www.wetpaint.com

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Wiki pros and cons?

No programming skills required

Easy to update

One version of docs

Vandalism

Edit Wars

Ideas can become skewed over time

Pros

Cons

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pbwiki – access settings

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wikis

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Blogs vs Wikis

Blog: It’s your content. No one can change it. Users can comment on your posts (content)*

Blog: It’s your content. No one can change it. Users can comment on your posts (content)*

Wiki: Everyone can (potentially) add to or change the content

Wiki: Everyone can (potentially) add to or change the content

*You can turn comments on or off

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source: www.gapingvoid.com

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